Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.Jeffrey Eugenides
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
Natalie Zea -
I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
Ed Balls -
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
Oleg Cassini -
You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
Adam McKay -
If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
Yami Gautam -
I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
T. J. Miller
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Zadie Smith -
I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
Kate Moss -
If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
Naveen Jain -
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie -
Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
Natalie Massenet -
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip Randolph
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
Kate Atkinson -
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. Howe -
I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
Taylor Swift -
You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
Malcolm Gladwell -
In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
Olga Kurylenko -
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
Imre Lakatos
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At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.
Terence Hardy -
I try to keep myself in what I'm doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying or being nervous. It won't benefit me, in any way, to focus on that.
Katie Cassidy -
We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.
Edward Furlong -
I was shocked to find out that 1 in 4 women are affected by domestic violence at some point in their lifetime. So many women never tell anyone that they are being abused by their partner. I have joined the 'Real Man' Women's Aid campaign to show that real men don't abuse women and that a real man will always stand up against domestic violence.
Ugo Monye -
You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces. I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got.
Caitlin Kittredge -
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.
Jeffrey Eugenides